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Aeschylus: Agamemnon Edith Hall 9781836244295
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £41.66The first revenge drama, the first great female role, the first tragedy set on the cusp between public space and private household, the first part of the only surviving tragic trilogy-the... -
Medea: A Life Edith Hall 9780300270723
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.00Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Aeschylus: Agamemnon Edith Hall 9781800856288
Booksplease Price: £104.10The first revenge drama, the first great female role, the first tragedy set on the cusp between public space and private household, the first part of the only surviving tragic trilogy-the... -
New Light on Tony Harrison by Edith Hall 9780197266519
Booksplease Price: £47.30New Light on Tony Harrison was developed from a conference marking the 80th birthday of the prizewinning British poet Tony Harrison. Contributors include practising poets, playwrights, specialists in... -
Medea in Performance 1500-2000 Edith Hall 9781900755351
RRP: £80.99Booksplease Price: £71.27This book provides an exhaustive account of the performance history of Euripides' tragedy and its various versions and adaptations from 1500 to 2000, filling some of the yawning gaps left by previous... -
Tony Harrison: Poet of Radical Classicism by Edith Hall 9781350194588
Booksplease Price: £33.84This is the first book-length study of the classicism of Tony Harrison, one of the most important contemporary poets in England and the world. It argues that his unique and politically radical... -
Classical Encounters in England's North East Edith Hall 9781032969190
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This is the first book to explore the history of ancient Greek and Roman influences and reception in England's North East, topics which have often transcended social boundaries dictated by working... -
Greek Tragedy: Suffering under the Sun by Edith Hall 9780199232512
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £80.91This is an invaluable introduction to ancient Greek tragedy which discusses every surviving play in detail and provides all the background information necessary for understanding the context and... -
Tony Harrison: Poet of Radical Classicism by Edith Hall 9781474299336
Booksplease Price: £90.57Longlisted for the 2022 Runciman AwardThis is the first book-length study of the classicism of Tony Harrison, one of the most important contemporary poets in England and the world. It argues that his... -
Greek Tragedy and the British Theatre 1660-1914 by Edith Hall 9780198150879
Booksplease Price: £115.95This lavishly illustrated book offers the first full, interdisciplinary investigation of the historical evidence for the presence of ancient Greek tragedy in the post-Restoration British theatre,... -
The Return of Ulysses: A Cultural History of Homer's Odyssey by Edith Hall 9780801888694
RRP: £44.95Booksplease Price: £41.90This broadly conceived and enlightening look at how Homer's Odyssey has resonated in the West offers a thematic analysis of the poem's impact on social and political ideas, institutions, and mores... -
The Ancient Greeks: Ten Ways They Shaped the Modern World by Edith Hall
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.95They gave us democracy, philosophy, poetry, rational science, the joke. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. They wrote the timeless myths of Odysseus and Oedipus, and the... -
The Return of Ulysses: A Cultural History of Homer's Odyssey by Edith Hall 9781780762357
Booksplease Price: £25.91Whether they focus on the bewitching song of the Sirens, his cunning escape from the cave of the terrifying one-eyed Cyclops, or the vengeful slaying of the suitors of his beautiful wife Penelope,... -
Classical Civilisation and Ancient History in British Secondary Education Edith Hall 9781800856080
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £28.54An Open Access edition will be available on publication on the Liverpool University Press website, thanks to funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). In the UK A-Levels and GCSEs... -
Inventing the Barbarian: Greek Self-Definition through Tragedy by Edith Hall 9780198147800
RRP: £91.00Booksplease Price: £68.43Incest, polygamy, murder, sacrilege, impalement, castration, female power, and despotism: these are some of the images by which the Greek tragedians defined the non-Greek, `barbarian' world. This... -
Facing Down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me Edith Hall 9780300281927
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30An award-winning classicist turns to Greek tragedies for the wisdom to understand the damage caused by suicide and help those who are contemplating suicide themselves "Remarkable, brave and... -
Theorising Performance: Greek Drama, Cultural History and Critical Practice by Edith Hall 9780715638262
Booksplease Price: £44.76This exciting collection constitutes the first analysis of the modern performance of ancient Greek drama from a theoretical perspective. The last three decades have seen a remarkable revival of the... -
India, Greece and Rome 1757–2007 (BICS Supplement 108) by Edith Hall 9781905670284
Booksplease Price: £29.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905670284Author Edith HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 225Imprint University of London... -
Aristotle's Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life by Edith Hall
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'Wonderful and timely ... Hugely recommended' STEPHEN FRYWhat do you and an ancient philosopher have in common? It turns out much more than you might think... Aristotle was an extraordinary thinker... -
Dionysus Since 69: Greek Tragedy at the Dawn of the Third Millennium by Edith Hall 9780199281312
RRP: £89.00Booksplease Price: £70.95Greek tragedy is currently being performed more frequently than at any time since classical antiquity. This book is the first to address the fundamental question, why has there been so much Greek... -
Epic of the Earth: Reading Homer’s "Iliad" in the Fight for a Dying World by Edith Hall 9780300275582
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.18An urgent study of Homer’s Iliad exposing the beginnings of the ecological disaster we now face and facilitating our understanding of its history The roots of today’s environmental catastrophe run... -
A Companion to Sophocles Kirk Ormand (Oberlin College, USA) 9781119025535
RRP: £37.95Booksplease Price: £35.71A Companion to Sophocles presents the first comprehensive collection of essays in decades to address all aspects of the life, works, and critical reception of Sophocles. First collection of its... -
Aristophanes in Performance 421 BC-AD 2007: Peace, Birds and Frogs by Edith Hall 9780367602222
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £42.10This book traces the international performance history of Aristophanic comedy, and its implication in aesthetic and political controversies, from 421 BC to AD 2007. It includes Brechtian experiments... -
Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris: A Cultural History of Euripides' Black Sea Tragedy by Edith Hall 9780195392890
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £69.84Human sacrifice, a spirited heroine, a quest ending in a hairsbreadth escape, the touching reunion of long-lost siblings, and exquisite poetry--these features have historically made Euripides'... -
Aristotle's Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life by Edith Hall 9780735220829
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £11.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735220829Author Edith HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin... -
Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind by Edith Hall 9780393351163
Booksplease Price: £13.32The ancient Greeks invented democracy, theater, rational science, and philosophy. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. Yet this accomplished people never formed a single unified... -
A People's History of Classics: Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939 by Edith Hall
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £32.38A People's History of Classics explores the influence of the classical past on the lives of working-class people, whose voices have been almost completely excluded from previous histories of... -
Aeschylus: Persians Edith Hall (Professor of Classics, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Durham (United Kingdom)) 9780856685972
RRP: £30.29Booksplease Price: £29.01A ghost summoned with bizarre rituals from the underworld, the elaborate protocol of the Persian court, desperate lamentation, self-mutilation, and a thrilling eye-witness account of the battle of... -
Without A Map by Meredith Hall
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807072745Author Meredith HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon... -
Without a Map: A Memoir: Updated by Meredith Hall 9780807016312
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807016312Author Meredith HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon... -
The Modern Shepherd: Leadership Lessons from the Desert by AlBaraa H. Taibah
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £4.01How can tending a flock of sheep empower leadership skills?How does it build character and awaken wisdom?And why was shepherding the starting point for so many of the great prophets, such as... -
The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life by Bettany Hughes
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74We think the way we do because Socrates thought the way he did. His aphorism 'The unexamined life is not worth living' may have originated twenty-five centuries ago, but it is a founding principle of... -
For The Immortal by Emily Hauser
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.67'Offers a fresh and feminist take' Madeline Miller, bestselling author of CirceThousands of years ago, two remarkable women found themselves swept up in one of the greatest legends of all . . . and... -
Black Athena Revisited by Mary R. Lefkowitz 9780807845554
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £35.51In this collection of 20 essays, scholars in a broad range of disciplines confront the claims made by Martin Bernal in ""Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization"". In that work,... -
Sophocles A Very Short Introduction Hall 9780192897800
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.72Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring This Very Short Introduction introduces the life, work, and influence of one of the greatest dramatists of all time, Sophocles the Athenian. ... -
The Birds and Other Plays by Aristophanes
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Offering a window into the world of ordinary Athenians, Aristophanes' The Birds and Other Plays is a timeless set of comedies, combining witty satire and raucous slapstick to wonderful effect. This... -
Three Restoration Comedies by Sir George Etherege
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23After the restoration of King Charles II to the British throne in 1660, dramatists experienced new freedom in an age that broke from the strict morality of puritan rule and in which elegance and wit... -
The School for Scandal and Other Plays by Richard Sheridan 9780140432404
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The three plays collected in this volume demonstrate Sheridan's unerring ability to create unrivalled comedy out of ingenious plots, witty repartee, farcical situations and flamboyant characters. And... -
The Rope and Other Plays by Plautus
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Brilliantly adapting Greek New Comedy for Roman audiences, the sublime comedies of Plautus (c. 254 -184 bc ) are the earliest surviving complete works of Latin literature. The four plays collected... -
The Eclogues by Virgil 9780140444193
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Haunting and enigmatic, Virgil's Eclogues combined a Greek literary form with scenes from contemporary Roman life to create a work that inspired a whole European tradition of pastoral poetry. For...